Dear Comrades! Your letter with information about the views and plans of the remaining editorial board of the *Southern Worker* 196 has brought us enormous joy. We join with all our hearts in your proposal for the closest relations and collaboration between the *Southern Worker* and *Iskra*. We must immediately take the most energetic measures to consolidate these close relations and move toward unified actions flowing from our unity of views. First, we shall make use of your proposal to conduct negotiations with Chernyshev. Give us his address. Will he not be abroad (as we have heard) and might he not visit us*? Second, indicate to us your official representative. Give us immediately a direct address for letters to you from abroad and from Russia, as well as an address where we can reach you in person. We have already taken steps to ensure that members of the Russian organization of *Iskra* meet with you and discuss everything in detail. In order not to waste time, write to us in greater detail about your affairs. What are the immediate practical plans of the editorial board of the *Southern Worker*? Does it have relations with the southern committees and formal relations with them? From your words that you intend to conduct affairs as they were conducted before the formation of the "Union of Southern Committees and Organizations" 197, we conclude that both the composition and the direction of the present editorial board of the *Southern Worker* diverge from the composition and direction of that editorial board which existed in spring, at the time of the conference? In what exactly does this divergence of directions consist, and what position do the southern committees occupy here—that is, which of them stand for the direction of the "Union of Southern Committees and Organizations" and which for your direction?

What is your view on whether this divergence runs deep, whether it will hinder party unification, and what measures are desirable for the speediest achievement of solidarity? In what rela-

* From abroad, write to Dietz in two envelopes, requesting him to forward immediately to the editorial board of *Iskra*.